Tag: Monet
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In Search of Monet’s Water Lilies in Giverny
I first became aware of Claude Monet as a freshman in college when I walked into a friend’s dorm room one day and there above her bed was a poster like none I had ever seen before; a bridge with water lilies. The painting was surrounded by a thick green border with ‘Claude Monet’ written…
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Rouen: Cathedral Lights and a Martyred Heroine
The French city of Rouen is known for two things – its magnificent cathedral and the martyrdom of Joan of Arc at the age of nineteen. There has been a church on the site of the Rouen cathedral since the 4th century. Construction started on the current cathedral in the 1200s. If you’re lucky enough…
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